Research Interests for Michael Tomasello

Research Interests:

Major research interests in processes of social cognition, social learning, cooperation, and communication from developmental, comparative, and cultural perspectives. Current theoretical focus on processes of shared intentionality. Empirical research mainly with human children from 1 to 4 years of age and great apes.

Tomasello, M, How children come to understand false beliefs: A shared intentionality account.,
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 115 no. 34
(August, 2018),
pp. 8491-8498 [doi] [abs].